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70% of Your Alerts Are Noise — And They're Burning Out Your On-Call Team
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70% of Your Alerts Are Noise — And They're Burning Out Your On-Call Team

via Dev.to DevOpsant3h ago

An AI alert triage layer for teams drowning in false alarms, duplicate pages, and midnight noise. Last Tuesday at 2:47 AM, I got paged. High CPU on the payments service. I dragged myself out of bed, opened my laptop, squinted at Grafana for 20 minutes, grepped through CloudWatch logs, checked the deploy history — and found... nothing. A brief spike. Already resolved. No customer impact. No action needed. I went back to bed. Couldn't fall asleep. Got paged again at 4:15 AM. Same pattern. Another false alarm. At 9 AM, I joined standup with bloodshot eyes. My manager asked if everything was okay. I said: "Yeah, just alert noise." He nodded. Like it was normal. Because it is. This is the life of a lot of modern on-call teams. Especially teams running Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie — where the monitoring stack works, but the paging experience is still broken. If you're an SRE, DevOps, platform, or backend lead dealing with noisy alerts, I'm building this now . → J

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